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07-13-2009, 02:47 PM
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#2226
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: USA
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Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies
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07-13-2009, 04:40 PM
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#2227
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 35
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"Solitude: a return to the self" by Anthony Storr
-an interesting look at the variety of ways solitude affects the human brain and the social and personal aspects of life.
"The Necromancers" (edited by Peter Haining)
-a collection of historical and fictional accounts of black magic/witchcraft rituals, gatherings, trials, etc.
Sometimes I just walk into the library and pull random books off the shelves.
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07-15-2009, 11:43 PM
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#2228
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
Posts: 1,726
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"Through The Looking Glass", by John Ringo
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07-16-2009, 01:47 AM
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#2229
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Not near you, I assure you.
Posts: 304
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Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz.
If I win this H.P. Lovecraft book off eBay that's next otherwise Pet Semetary.
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07-16-2009, 01:54 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 62
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Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn.
It's a book about local history I have to read for English; and oh god, it is boring.
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07-16-2009, 04:42 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 29
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The Loop by Nicholas Evans
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07-17-2009, 09:51 AM
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#2232
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Trannywood, CA.
Posts: 59
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Originally Posted by Shadow of the Fox
Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies
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I want to read this. But I'm trying to figure out if I should read the original first or vice versa.
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07-22-2009, 06:53 PM
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#2233
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NYC Fo' shizzle mah nizzle
Posts: 1,026
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing:Traitor to the Nation
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07-22-2009, 06:58 PM
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#2234
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NYC Fo' shizzle mah nizzle
Posts: 1,026
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Originally Posted by epitomeofsleep
I want to read this. But I'm trying to figure out if I should read the original first or vice versa.
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I found this book in a Barnes & Nobles. Found the cover to be hilarious. Read a bit of it and found a passage saying something about the main female character drop-kicking a zombie.....
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07-22-2009, 07:20 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 35
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Originally Posted by epitomeofsleep
I want to read this. But I'm trying to figure out if I should read the original first or vice versa.
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Read the original first. It'll give you a greater appreciation for the whole thing, and also make the zombified version a lot funnier.
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07-23-2009, 08:19 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Suriname, South-America
Posts: 268
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and Rappa's 'Fromoe Archie'
The last one is really sick.......
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07-23-2009, 08:43 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Greensboro, NC
Posts: 61
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"Meditations" By Marcus Aurelius
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07-24-2009, 05:29 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 35
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Originally Posted by Catch101
"Meditations" By Marcus Aurelius
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Interesting choice. Are you reading the works of other Stoics as well, or just Aurelius?
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07-24-2009, 05:40 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Greensboro, NC
Posts: 61
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Originally Posted by Konstantin
Interesting choice. Are you reading the works of other Stoics as well, or just Aurelius?
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Right now, just Marcus Aurelius. But I have enjoyed the journal so much, I feel I owe it to Marcus's inspiration to read a bit more.
Any suggestions?
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07-24-2009, 05:56 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 35
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Definitely look into "Letters from a Stoic" and, if you can get your hands on it, "On the shortness of life" by Seneca. The former, especially, is an amazing book.
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07-24-2009, 07:26 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Greensboro, NC
Posts: 61
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Konstantin
Definitely look into "Letters from a Stoic" and, if you can get your hands on it, "On the shortness of life" by Seneca. The former, especially, is an amazing book.
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Thanks.
"I can think of nothing that is worth prizing highly or pursuing seriously. No; what a man must do is to nerve himself to wait quietly for his natural dissolution; and meanwhile not to chafe at its delay, but to find his sole consolation in two thoughts: first, that nothing can ever happen to us that is not in accordance with nature; and second, that power to abstain from acting against the divine spirit within me lies in my own hands, since there is no man alive who can force such disobedience upon me." (Marcus Aurelius, Book 5, Chapter 10)
True goth literature in my opinion.
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07-24-2009, 09:50 PM
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#2242
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 57
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Catch101
... and second, that power to abstain from acting against the divine spirit within me lies in my own hands, since there is no man alive who can force such disobedience upon me." (Marcus Aurelius, Book 5, Chapter 10)
True goth literature in my opinion.
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Interesting. Would you say that the author's intent is to say that no one can take away your right to die but you? Or am I missing some piece of context here?
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07-24-2009, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada, BC
Posts: 1,949
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The great conversation Volume one
philosophy textbook
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07-25-2009, 12:58 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Reading Clive Barker's Imagica.
So far not impressed.
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07-29-2009, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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I fucking love libraries!
I'm reading Dirty Hands, by Jean Paul Sartre, but I'll be done with it today.
Now I have to read Between Existentialism and Marxism by Sartre; You Can Trust the Communists by Fred Schwarz; Foucault, a Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting; Foucault and the Critique of Institutions by John Caputo (I think), and Discipline and Punish, by Foucault himself.
Not necessarily in that order.
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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07-30-2009, 03:29 AM
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#2246
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Konstantin
Definitely look into "Letters from a Stoic" and, if you can get your hands on it, "On the shortness of life" by Seneca. The former, especially, is an amazing book.
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This has placed me on a most interesting path, to inspect Stoicism!
And I have already enjoyed reading Seneca although I have only skimmed the surface. I recognize a kindred spirit.
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07-30-2009, 11:39 AM
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#2247
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 43
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Originally Posted by Pineapple_Juice
Reading Clive Barker's Imagica.
So far not impressed.
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Is that your first Clive Barker book? "Thief of Always" is top notch...and they're due to butcher it with a movie in the next couple of years, so read it before Hollywood gets it's grubby claws all over it. "Mr. B. Gone" is a wickedly fun little romp as well.
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07-30-2009, 12:15 PM
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#2248
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,036
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I`m still reading the count of monte cristo!! I started to dislike the book all because it`s huge!! it better has one hell of an ending!
Next book: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
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07-31-2009, 09:55 AM
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#2249
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fiddler's Green
Posts: 1,406
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Currently, finishing up the Stand (pretty good but one hell of a read) and started up the Stranger, a book I'd been putting off reading for awhile. Good stuff.
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07-31-2009, 11:38 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Belgium
Posts: 2
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Konstantin
Definitely look into "Letters from a Stoic" and, if you can get your hands on it, "On the shortness of life" by Seneca. The former, especially, is an amazing book.
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I love Seneca's "De Vita Beata" (= "On the happy life"). I really admire the stoic philosophy, although I highly doubt I'll ever be able to put it into practice myself. I've been meaning to read Marcus Aurelius, I really have to get to it one of these days.
I'm currently reading "The end of Mr Y" by Scarlett Thomas. I've only read the first couple of chapters, but so far it seems promising. I've also almost finished Gregory Maguire's "Wicked". It's going quite slowly though, it's not as interesting as I thought it would be.
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